Alex French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having read the RFCs (well, skimmed them at least) I am aware that > including Acct-Session-Time, Acct-Output-Octets and Acct-Input-Octets in > UPDATE messages is illegal. However, we have what we think is a good reason > to do it, and freeradius seems to allow this (and we've patched the > postgresql config statements to update the accounting tables appropriately).
FreeRADIUS is designed to be pretty forgiving about what it handls. > My question is, how evil do people consider this to be? Does anyone have an > insight into *why* this is illegal? And is anyone aware of how other Radius > servers treat such packets (i.e. willl it break anything if we proxy these > attributes to other people?) From what I read of the RFC's, they're not forbidden. Putting them into an update request shouldn't break anything. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
